Today's Opinions

Anyone who has driven through Carolina Shores will certainly notice we have a lovely golf course in our community but lack a downtown area or a main street.

Designing a park adjacent to our town hall would be a wonderful way to honor our community and to have a designated and centralized area for outside activities. It would be a place where you could meet and celebrate annual events or take a walk and enjoy nature or maybe just sit and savor the moment.

I am responding to the Cerrato letter in the March 3 edition of the Beacon. That letter concerns allegations against Sunset Beach lead building inspector Jeff Curtis. It is another attempt to discredit our town’s elected officials and professional staff. Cerrato, as usual, uses partial quotes and half-truths in his crusade to prove that our town officials are corrupt.

Police, confronting a real or potential culprit in tense situations, want to see their “hands,” hands that can externally first telegraph internal, harmful, hidden agendas. Courts of law, when sitting in equity to adjudge, should contemplate the concern, “Are the complainants here ‘with clean hands?’”

We have read many comments in the Beacon from Sunset Beach “islanders” and found it hard to believe that people could say those hurtful things.

We saw extra driveways built and the “no parking” signs, and believed solutions would be found, that islanders were overreacting. We trusted that Sunset Beach officials would make provisions for “us other taxpayers” to use the public beach.

Photo IDs are required by law as proof of identity in North Carolina to sell scrap metal, purchase surplus North Carolina state property, obtain a pistol purchase permit, get a library card, apply for social services and by federal law, to establish a bank account, fly on an airplane, or cash a U.S. postal money order.

This is in response to closing side streets to parking on the island of Sunset Beach. Many families rent condos and houses on the mainland when spending their vacation at Sunset Beach. These families support the local economy by spending their dollars in the restaurants and shops and grocery stores.

Instead of embracing tourists, the town will be turning them away. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.